I think it has happened to all of us at one point or another, you meet someone or hear about some 'celebrity' and you get the taste of bile, mixed with disgust and hate in your mouth. (Please at least click on the second link there) These people are very much similar to an arch nemesis, although, unlike a nemesis, you need not actively engage in thwarting. These people shall henceforth be called Kabuki men. (Remember where you heard it first)
For example: Superman's arch nemesis is, of course, Lex Luthor. However, I'm sure his list of Kabuki men went something like this:
Doomsday
Ultra-Humanite
Mister Mxyzptlk
Brainiac
Natural Disasters
Bizarro
General Zod
Darkseid
Human Ignorance
Buttons/Zippers/Velcro
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
They don't see me but they hear me
They don't feel me but they fear me I'm illi
Vexed Addendum: I can already hear it now: "But why 'Kabuki Man'? There's nothing inherently devious or sinister about the Kabuki in and of itself. So why the slandering of a classical Japanese performance style?" But alas, the association is derived from an ancient proverb that dates back
An extremely successful and skilled American tea merchant once came across a storage canister amongst his wares, which bore the visage of the Kabuki. Due to its slightly non-Western origin, the merchant was unable to sell the canister using conventional salesmanship. As a consequence, he decided to embark on an epic quest to sell the canister, using all the knowledge of
And so with a singular and soul consuming focus, the merchant went about soliciting the canister to all who entered his establishment (and even those who didn't). Despite the ferocity with which he has gone about his task, the merchant has not rid his store of the Kabuki canister, even to this day. It simply gathers dust comprised of broken spirits and dashed ambition. As the only blemish on an otherwise stellar sales career, one might describe the Kabuki canister as the merchant's-- *Cue dramatic music* ARCH NEMESIS!
So, we at M-Theory feel the Kabuki to be analogous to the person/place/thing we find to be most egregious to the human/mutant/alien race at any given moment.
Now may be the appropriate time (after all my logic and my theory) to add a Mothaf*cka. (So all you ignorant cats'a feel me.)
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